Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- specific
Cracking below feet and sudden sense of weightlessness. Observed large crack above and pointed it to a ridge line. No signs of instability noted prior to avalanche.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 36
- Cloud Cover
- clear
Snowpack
Wind blown snow. Around a few inches of new snow from the past week.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Aspect
- W
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 3000 ft
Triggered from below, created large deep crown in wind slab above. Skier escaped without getting carried.